Saturday, March 17, 2018

Hello crafty friends! Welcome to the Chattering Robin's blog. Michelle here with you today to share a brief tutorial, on how to make a mini lace dream catcher, with beautiful spring inspired colors using Dew Drops from The Robin's Nest.

Embroidery hoop dream catchers, are all the crafting rage right now. They can be simple and Bohemian styled, or made Shabby using beautiful laces & trims, or any style one can dream up. My little treasure leans toward the Bohemian, and a selection of Dew Drops were just the right touch.For this project you will need:4" Mini Embroidery HoopLaceEmbroidery ThreadFabric StiffenerRibbonLace TrimSpring EmbellishmentsGlueFrom The Robin's Nest: Easter Dew Drops

Additional Tools & Supplies:ScraPerfect Embellie GellieCrafting NeedleFirst I cut a 5 inch circle from pre-stiffened lace. I then lay & stretched the lace over the "inside", smaller circle of the embroidery hoop. I then added a dollop of glue around that inside circle under the lace, then carefully lay the larger hoop over, tightened and secured. After the glue had cured, I used an ombre' embroidery thread, and went around the hoop, to give the appearance the lace had been "sewn" into place.I followed the paisley pattern of the lace, using a variety of Dew Drops over the entire surface, placing each into place using the Embellie Gellie tool.

Once the Dew Drops were glue and cured into place, I added satin ribbon & lace trim through the embroidery hoop lock, and glued to the bottom the hoop itself. I then decided to add Dew Drops from the same collections to the bottom of the satin ribbons.

To finish I added some butterfly & daisy embellishments.This little beauty is the perfect addition to any room or window, as the sunlight can give a near sun catcher look.The entire project took about an hour, and was made perfect using The Robin's Nest Dew Drops.

I am proud to be who I am. A devout Christian woman, loving wife, daughter and so on and so forth. My moto in life is a phrase penned from Steel Magnolia's.."that which doesn't kill me(us) makes me(us) stronger.

Thursday, March 15, 2018

Hello crafty friends!
Hope your week has been going well! It’s my turn to share here at the Robin’s Nest and so this is what I came up with.
I made this colorful and fun card featuring a dew drop egg! The egg was created with the Sprinkles Mini Dew Drop set. My finished card size is an A2. It is a white cardstock base and is top folding. I then used some yellow, white, lavender and green cardstock. The patterned papers are from the Doodlebug Bunnyville paper pad.

I created this egg template in my Pazzles craft cutter software. I then created the corresponding scalloped mat. I actually printed out the egg template as I made the outlines a very light gray. This gave me a pattern to go by to put the dew drops on. I used the mini dew drops from the Sprinkles Mini Dew Drop Set. Once I finished setting all of the dew drops I adhered the finished egg to the scalloped mat.

I also added a border of some of the same dew drops to the top border of my card.

I added a fun little sentiment and a bow with some seam binding.

For the bottom of the card, I simply added a few little banners.

Here is one last look at the finished card.

Please feel free to pin this image for some great Easter, Dew Drop Inspiration!

As always, thank you so much for stopping by and sharing your crafty time with me. Be sure to head over toThe Robin's Nest SHOP and check out all of the fabulous dew drops, diamond, tear and mini drops too! They are just the perfect embellishment for all your creations!

I pre-designed & cut my leather using my Cricut Explore Air 2. If you do not own a cutting machine, pre-cut leather shapes and leather bracelet blanks can be found in most leather crafting sections in craft stores, or found on line.

I chose a teal blue (Peacock) color & a reddish brown (Cafe') leather for this collection. Peacocks happen to be my favorite bird, and this happens to be my favorite color combo.I went with a wrap bracelet design using the Peacock leather. For the Cafe' leather, I chose a floral pattern, and used 3 various sizes. Once I had cut the designs, I planned a 3 flower pendant tapering from largest to small flower and used a medium & small flower for dangle earrings.With the wrap bracelet, I used an embossing plate, to add a bit more texture to the bracelet body only, not the strap, finishing with using at the pigment powder medium lightly rubbed across the embossed area, followed by lightly brushing an antique bronze metallic pigment powder.

While I did not use and embossing folder, I used the pigment powder medium around the edges and in the center of each flower component, using a metallic teal color.Assembly time!Before completely putting it all together, I chose & added a gorgeous Metallic Teal Dew Drop (there are so many colors and finishes to choose from) to the center of each flower, with just a dollop of mixed media glue.

Once the glue completely set (15 minutes or so) I then put the floral components together, using both medium & small jump rings, and for the earrings, I used fish hook design earrings. After getting the "mechanics" of the bracelet set (make sure to pre-strap the bracelet before adding ANY center embellishment) as I found out the hard way and had to reset the layered flower after I figured that out to late, lol. I then used a mixed media glue to adhere the flower to the center of the strap.

I wanted a softer necklace, rather than using a cold metal chain. I used vintage seam binding to accomplish this. First, I lightly sprayed color spray mist in a teal tone, working it into the ribbon, blotting with a paper towel and repeating the process twice more, finishing with drying with my heat tool.This entire project took about an hour, and the results are just amazing.Feminine with just an edge of "rock-n-roll".

I am proud to be who I am. A devout Christian woman, loving wife, daughter and so on and so forth. My moto in life is a phrase penned from Steel Magnolia's.."that which doesn't kill me(us) makes me(us) stronger.

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Disclosure: The designers on this blog have been provided with Free products from The Robin's Nest of Vernal. This is an agreement with the designer and The Robin's Nest of Vernal that the designer will create and post projects using these products on this blog, social sites, newsletters, and other advertising outlets.

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Disclosure: The designers on this blog have been provided with Free products from The Robin's Nest of Vernal. This is an agreement with the designer and The Robin's Nest of Vernal that the designer will create and post projects using these products on this blog, social sites, newsletters, and other advertising outlets.